biological diversity june 19 th, 2015. nutella is bad for the environment france’s ecology...

Biological Diversity

June 19th, 2015

Nutella is Bad for the Environment• France’s ecology minister, Ségolène Royal,

doesn’t think consumers should eat products containing palm oil, including Nutella.

• “We have to replant a lot of trees because there is massive deforestation that also leads to global warming," Royal said Monday on an interview broadcast by the French television network Canal+. "We should stop eating Nutella, for example, because it’s made with palm oil.”

• Palm oil is one of the biggest commodities linked to tropical deforestation

• Palm oil is used in hundreds of consumer products, from toothpaste to peanut butter to cookies

The Most Vulnerable• Microendemics

• Relic species

• Species with small populations

• Slow reproducers

• Species that have evolved in isolation

Species Protection

• Endangered Species Act 1973

– Endangered Species

– Threatened Species

• What is the broader problem?

Carroll Country

• Stippled Studfish Fundulus bifax - Endangered

• Restricted distribution and are extremely rare. • Habitat loss due to dam and reservoir construction, habitat

degradation, and poor water quality.

Carroll County

• White Fringeless Orchid Platanthera integrilabia – Threatened

Carroll Country

• Piedmont barren strawberryWaldsteinia lobata - threatened

Georgia

• Red-cockaded woodpeckerPicoides borealis - Endangered

Georgia

• Eastern indigo snakeDrymarchon corais couperi - Threatened

Georgia

• Gopher tortoise Gopherus polyphemus - Threatened

Zoos• 1860 – Central Park Zoo

• 1970s conservation movement

Conservation Movement

• Conservation Programs focus on open space

• Integrated Conservation-Development Projects

Landscape Ecology

• Subfield of Geography

• SLOSS

• Importance of corridors

Wildlife Bridge